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Employing the same stress-scheme as Poe's "The Raven" throughout its 62 minutes, "God In Three Persons" is an extended work in "talking-blues" style for narrator, electronic instruments, and a chorus providing comments not to be found in the libretto -- they sing production credits at the beginning, and lines like "something's coming, but not real soon," and "this is a sad part, oh, such a sad part". This surreal and yet directly delivered work is as lovingly human as it is comic with profound experience simply expressed...in short, an original masterpiece of American music, directly in the tradition of the Thomson-Stein and Robert Ashley operas. As in all Residents pieces, the voices are modified electronically and the musical elements are deceptively minimal--most of its 14 episodes have only two chords which, however, still manage to instantly produce the correct atmosphere (Phil Glass-like Wagnerian thirds for mythic import, tonic-dominant in triplets for 50's teenage love story, etc.). There are only passing riffs, more like comments, and the only melody in the whole piece is a wheezy organ quote of the standard doxology hymn "Holy, Holy, Holy (God in Three Persons)."The subject matter is, in part, the derivation of religious and other symbolic images from the naturally erotic... but that's only part of it. Please give this one a listen.
© "Blue" Gene Tyranny /TiVo
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The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 1988 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 1988 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 1988 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 1988 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 1988 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 1988 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 1988 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 1988 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 1988 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 1988 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 1988 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 1988 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 1988 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 1988 The Cryptic Corporation
Don Smith, Composer - The Residents, MainArtist - Sony/ATV Music Publishing (UK) Ltd, MusicPublisher - Cyril Vetter, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 1988 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 1989 The Cryptic Corporation
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The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 1988 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 1988 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 1988 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 1988 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 1988 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 1988 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 1988 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 1988 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 1988 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 1988 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 1988 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation
DISC 3
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 1988 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 1988 The Cryptic Corporation
Don Smith, Composer - The Residents, MainArtist - Chris Kenner, Composer - BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd, Sony/ATV Music Publishing (UK) Ltd, MusicPublisher - Cyril Vetter, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 1989 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 2005 The Cryptic Corporation
The Residents, MainArtist - Kassner Associated Publishers, MusicPublisher - Homer Flynn Iii, Composer - Hardy Fox, Composer
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 2015 The Cryptic Corporation
Album review
Employing the same stress-scheme as Poe's "The Raven" throughout its 62 minutes, "God In Three Persons" is an extended work in "talking-blues" style for narrator, electronic instruments, and a chorus providing comments not to be found in the libretto -- they sing production credits at the beginning, and lines like "something's coming, but not real soon," and "this is a sad part, oh, such a sad part". This surreal and yet directly delivered work is as lovingly human as it is comic with profound experience simply expressed...in short, an original masterpiece of American music, directly in the tradition of the Thomson-Stein and Robert Ashley operas. As in all Residents pieces, the voices are modified electronically and the musical elements are deceptively minimal--most of its 14 episodes have only two chords which, however, still manage to instantly produce the correct atmosphere (Phil Glass-like Wagnerian thirds for mythic import, tonic-dominant in triplets for 50's teenage love story, etc.). There are only passing riffs, more like comments, and the only melody in the whole piece is a wheezy organ quote of the standard doxology hymn "Holy, Holy, Holy (God in Three Persons)."The subject matter is, in part, the derivation of religious and other symbolic images from the naturally erotic... but that's only part of it. Please give this one a listen.
© "Blue" Gene Tyranny /TiVo
About the album
- 3 disc(s) - 40 track(s)
- Total length: 03:26:01
- Main artists: The Residents
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: New Ralph Too
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock Alternative & Indie
(C) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records & MVD Entertainment (P) 2019 The Cryptic Corporation
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